Effingham County Surface
What Effingham County Surface filed with EPD about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2012–2025 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.
- Non-revenue water, FY2025
- 7.7% Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
- system input volume 1,121 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell H80 · million gallons per year, declared in the header through 2020 and settled for 2021-2025 by EPD's own cost arithmetic and by continuity across the change
- billed authorized consumption 1,034 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell I80 · billed metered plus billed unmetered
- Annual value of the filed loss
- $16,100 Apparent loss is valued at this utility's own reported retail price of water. Real loss is NOT included — EPD publishes a variable production cost whose unit it does not declare, so no dollar figure is put on the leaked water. The real recoverable total is higher than this by an amount this filing does not let anyone state.
- cost of apparent losses, as filed 16,133 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell Z80
2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx2025 Water Audits H80agency source
Where this figure comes from
(system input − billed authorized) ÷ system input × 100
Read from data/archive/ga-epd-water-loss/2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx (SHA-256 69903a9418bc6d60), our archived copy of the file as it stood on 2026-09-06. That path is committed to the repository and is not served here. The agency publishes its own current copy at https://epd.georgia.gov/document/document/2025-water-audits/download, which may since have been revised.
2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx2025 Water Audits Z80agency source
Where this figure comes from
cost of apparent losses + cost of real losses, both as computed in the filed audit
Read from data/archive/ga-epd-water-loss/2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx (SHA-256 69903a9418bc6d60), our archived copy of the file as it stood on 2026-09-06. That path is committed to the repository and is not served here. The agency publishes its own current copy at https://epd.georgia.gov/document/document/2025-water-audits/download, which may since have been revised.
What the record shows
7.7% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 7% of the 228 Georgia systems that filed that year.
- The figure is improving across the record.
It does not establish what moved. A meter replacement program, a main break, a change of billing system, a corrected prior-year filing and an ordinary reporting error all produce a series that looks like this, and a filed water loss audit does not say which happened. What the flag does say is that the years disagree with each other by more than most of the state's do, so a single year of this series is a weak basis for a decision without the records behind it.
Compliance record
8 violations on EPA's record for this system as of 2026Q2, of which 1 is health-based. 4 resolved, 3 archived, and 1 still open.
- Consumer Confidence Report Complete Failure to Report unaddressed, from July 1, 2023
Counted as distinct violations, not as rows: EPA's export carries one row per enforcement action taken against a violation, so a row count would multiply this system's record several times over. A violation here is a breach of a reporting, monitoring or contaminant-level rule as reported to EPA — it is not a measurement of the water, and this site has none.
Source: US EPA, Safe Drinking Water Information System, via the ECHO national download, 2026Q2. How we hold it.
- FY2015 reports a leakage index of 0.03, which would mean less real loss than the unavoidable minimum the same audit computes for this network.
Each is reproduced exactly as filed and excluded from every figure computed on this page. A number that contradicts its own audit is a finding about the filing, not a gap in ours.
EPD derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so these parts sum to the whole on every filing. What a filing can get wrong is which of these numbers were measured.
Where these volumes come from
- System input 1,121 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell H80 · million gallons per year, declared in the header through 2020 and settled for 2021-2025 by EPD's own cost arithmetic and by continuity across the change
- Billed authorized 1,034 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell I80 · billed metered plus billed unmetered
- Unbilled authorized 35.3 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell K80 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered
- Apparent loss 5.17 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell O80
- Real loss 46.3 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell P80
From data/archive/ga-epd-water-loss/2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx (SHA-256 69903a9418bc6d60), retrieved 2026-09-06 from the published source.
| Year | NRW | Input (MG) | Recoverable |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.7% | 1,121 | $16,100 |
| 2024 | 24.1% | 1,004 | $7,010 |
| 2023 | 7.8% | 1,007 | $8,540 |
| 2022 | 3.2% | 975.6 | $39,300 |
| 2021 | 3.6% | 947.8 | $40,500 |
| 2020 | 3.3% | 985.9 | $42,300 |
| 2019 | 13.9% | 889.2 | $2,410 |
| 2018 | 15.1% | 758.3 | $1,370 |
| 2017 | 9.2% | 831.4 | $1,740 |
| 2016 | 19.8% | 751 | $10,200 |
| 2015 | 14.4% | 894.1 | $6,720 |
| 2014 | 26.0% | 621.7 | $9,150 |
| 2013 | 36.6% | 572.8 | $8,080 |
| 2012 | 21.0% | 814.7 | $6,550 |
Balance closure is inapplicable on every filed year above, so the column that repeated it is not shown. EPD derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so this decomposition holds by construction. This is neither a pass nor a disclosure gap.
Comparable systems
In the same county.
| System | Basis for comparison | NRW |
|---|---|---|
| Rincon | EFFINGHAM County | 22.9% FY2025 |
| Adairsville | 3,300–10,000 connections | 11.1% FY2025 |
| Pickens County | 3,300–10,000 connections | 31.1% FY2025 |
| Lowndes Co.-south Lowndes Co. Ws | 3,300–10,000 connections | 5.7% FY2025 |
| Dallas | 3,300–10,000 connections | 37.2% FY2024 |
| Heard County | 3,300–10,000 connections | 51.4% FY2025 |
| Elberton | 3,300–10,000 connections | 11.6% FY2025 |
| Lavonia | 3,300–10,000 connections | 25.4% FY2025 |
Where is it going?
This page values the loss at roughly $16,100 a year. It cannot say which accounts, which zones, or which meters, and it cannot say how much of that value is collectable. Answering either takes your billing history, your meter reads, and your production data reconciled against each other.
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- Georgia EPD — validated water loss audit results, filed under the Water Stewardship Act of 2010. Retrieved 2026-09-06 from data/archive/ga-epd-water-loss/2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx. https://epd.georgia.gov/watershed-protection-branch/water-efficiency-and-water-loss-audits